Dale Kueter

DALE KUETER wrote for Iowa newspapers for 41 years, 34 at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids. He attended Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and was graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Iowa in 1958. He served six years in the Iowa Army National Guard.

Kueter grew up on a farm near Bellevue, Iowa. After college he married Helen Hayes. They are parents of five daughters and have 14 grandchildren. He has published a children’s book, “Hide the Daddy,” two full-length non-fiction books, “Vietnam Sons” and “The Smell of the Soil,” and a historical novel, “Motel Sepia.” A new historical novel, “Ma Bremer’s Boys,” was published in f 2021.

He is a proponent of family story writing as a means of sustaining family history. That is the essence of his book, “The Smell of the Soil.”

Kueter likes to fish, travel and is a long-suffering fan of the Chicago White Sox. He and his wife live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.